I could see that. I legit thought it was a good proposal to suggest at least this part:

If they’re just saying something you don’t like, respectfully, and they’re not spamming it, use your words instead of your moderation abilities.

Edit: I was probably overstating the case - it could be good, I suppose? Then again, why not leave it to the mods to decide what they want for their own communities? Yet the instance admins should also have a say what kinds of communities exist on their instance, especially if legality of content is part of the issue. It’s definitely a balancing act no matter what.

Especially in light of some of the stuff that came before. But it definitely went off the deep end with the likes of:

We’re going to allow some “flat earth” comments. We’re going to force some moderators to accept some “flat earth” comments.

Woah, not the best choice of words there perhaps even if the concept itself was meant legitimately.

I would really hate to see the mods of e.g. [email protected] have to put up with crap like that, or as you said it’s more likely that they would simply step down as mods, and then hopefully migrate the community elsewhere. Unlike the debacle with 196, such a move there would be fully supported by the community members, in that case, I have zero doubts.